Allenby Street
Street in Tel Aviv, Israel
Allenby Street (Hebrew: רחוב אלנבי, romanized: Rekhóv Álenbi) is a major street in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was named in honor of Field Marshal Viscount Allenby.
Allenby Street stretches from the Mediterranean Sea in the northwest to HaAliya Street in the southeast. It was first paved with concrete in 1914. During the day, it is a commercial street with many small businesses and clothing stores. At night, its cafés, pubs and restaurants throng with people. Many public buses run along Allenby Street.
Landmarks
Lederberg House
The 1925 Lederberg House, at the intersection of Rothschild Boulevard and Allenby, features a series of large ceramic murals designed by Ze'ev Raban of the Bezalel school. The four murals show a Jewish pioneer sowing and harvesting, a shepherd, and Jerusalem with a verse from Jeremiah 31:4, "Again I will rebuild thee and thou shalt be rebuilt."[1]
References
- ^ Chaim Nachman Bialik Home, in Batia Carmiel, Tiles Adorned City; Bezalel ceramics on Tel Aviv Houses, 1923-1929), Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, 1996, in Hebrew with some English
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Streets in Tel Aviv
- Allenby Street
- Basel Street
- Begin Road
- Ben Yehuda Street
- Dizengoff Street
- HaMasger Street
- HaYarkon Street
- Ibn Gabirol Street
- Jerusalem Boulevard, Jaffa
- King George Street
- Nahalat Binyamin Street
- Rothschild Boulevard
- Yefet Street
- HaArba'a Street
- Frishman Street
- Kaplan Street
- Sheinkin Street
- Ayalon Highway
- Highway 2
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